Volume 9 | Issue 34 | Number 1 | Article ID 3590 | Aug 30, 2011 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites 体系的不安 定化行動としてのノルウェイのテロ−−ブレイヴィク、武器・薬物交換 の環境、世界的な影のエリート Peter Dale Scott Norway’s Terror as SystemicBut the backgrounds of some violent events are Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms- more mysteriously organized than, say, those of for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow a resentful and quasi-spontaneous grudge Elites killing or flash mob. For some time I have discussed acts such as the Kennedy Peter Dale Scott assassination as what I have calleddeep events: events, obscured and/or Breivik’s Terror: Was It a Deep Event? misrepresented in mainstream media, whose origins are mysterious but often intelligence- The most surprising aspect of the recent related, attributed to marginal outsiders, but unexpected terrorist violence in Norway is that, intersecting with large and powerful but covert in retrospect, it is not surprising. Our revived forces having the power and the intent to hopes after the end of the Cold War, that we influence history. More recently I have might finally be emerging into a world of diminishing bloodshed, have been abundantly emphasized the need to analyze deep events disabused. Events of seemingly randomcomparatively, as part of an on-going hidden irrational violence, such as that which so substrate in so-called developed societies. And shocked us when President Kennedy was to raise the question whether key deep events assassinated, have become a predictable part are interrelated. of the world in which we live. Breivik’s mayhem on July 22, 2011, (henceforth To some extent we can blame the violence on 7/22) has forced me to clarify my definition of a our social system itself. It is clearlydeep event, to distinguish between those which unsatisfactory, and needs fundamentalare merely unsolved or mysterious in reconstructions that nonviolent actions have themselves, and those which have proved to be been painfully slow to deliver. Thus violence part of a larger systemic mystery grounded in slowly builds up at all levels, from the flash the structures of either society itself, or its mobs of the hopeless at the base of society to shadow underworld (demi-monde, Irrwelt), or the war schemes of those in high places. In in some combination of the two. As I wrote such a milieu Anders Breivik is only one of many, from the Unabomber in America to the three years ago, “The unthinkable – that jihadi suicide bombers everywhere, who have elements inside the state would conspire with chosen to dedicate themselves to sacrificial criminals to kill innocent civilians – has become violence, rather than to an eventless survival in not only thinkable but commonplace in the last an alienating status quo. century.”1 1 9 | 34 | 1 APJ | JF anarchists, but were ultimately revealed to have been false-flag attacks organized, as part of a strategy of tension, by right-wing neo- fascists inside the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI, with a possible green light (according to the chief of SISMI) from elements in the CIA.4 Since then an Italian premier has confirmed that the parallel intelligence structure responsible for the bombings was part of a stay-behind network, Gladio, which we now know was originally organized by NATO as a potential resistance in the event of a Soviet occupation of western Europe. Moreover, in the words of an Italian parliamentary commission, “Those massacres, those bombs, those military action had been organized or promoted or supported…by men linked to the structures of the United States.”5 In country after country, the Gladio networks soon deteriorated into activist anti-democratic cells with intelligence connections. They have been shown to have been behind other acts of violence, including the actions of the Grey Breivik under arrest Wolves in Turkey, and the Brabant massacres of 1983-85 in Belgium.6 Nor is this ancient history. In November 1990 Italian Premier There is no evidence that Unabomber’s actions, Andreotti revealed that Italy, along with France or the two assassination attempts against and the other NATO countries, had just President Gerald Ford (by Lynette Fromm and convened at a secret NATO Gladio meeting just Sara Jane Moore) were deep events in this the month before – i.e., after the fall of the second, more limited sense. The still not Berlin Wall.7 understood nerve gas attacks of 1995 in the Tokyo subway, by the Buddhist group Aum This persisting presence of Gladio networks Shinrikyo, can be seen as a possible deep throughout Europe, including Norway, raises event.2 The attack on Pope John Paul II is a the question: was 7/22 a systemic deep event, more probable one, because of the murderer’s or at least a possible deep event? Having membership in the Turkish Grey Wolves, an pondered this for a month, my conclusions, all activist movement close to the Turkish security tentative except the first, are these: apparatus now known as Turkey’s gizli devlet or deep state.3 1) Breivik most probably did not As examples of systemic deep events, we can act alone, despite the latest official point to two spectacular bombings in Italy, the reports: “prosecutors and police Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan and have said they are fairly certain simultaneous Rome bombing of 1969. These that Breivik planned and were initially blamed on marginal left-wing committed them on his own.”8 2 9 | 34 | 1 APJ | JF 2) We should probably look for his has called the illicit shadow elites associates in thedemi-monde that are part of the world’s elite mobilized outside and against the superclass.10 state, rather than in the structures of the state itself. 8) Thus Norway’s terror, like comparable bombings in Italy and 3) 7/22 is probably not a traditional Turkey, illustrates, once again, the false-flag operation; the milieu of congruence between the dark Breivik’s associates is indeed quadrant of systemic probably that pointed to, without destabilization (or what I once incrimination, in the alleged called “managed violence”) and the Breivik manifesto and video. milieu of the international drug traffic.11 4) The motive of 7/22 may have been to maximize publicity for the political message of one particular James Petras has wondered whether Breivik’s group in this milieu, the actions on 7/22 were part of a Norwegian Euronationalist Knights Templar of strategy of tension on the model of Piazza former neo-Nazi turned counter- Fontana. He has raised what he calls the jihad publicist Nick Greger. “obvious question…as to the degree to which the ideology of right wing extremism – neo- 5) We should look behind the fascism – has penetrated the police and counter-jihad ideology of Breivik security forces, especially the upper and Greger’s Knights Templar to echelons?”12 He thus suspects the extreme the arms-for-drugs trafficking delay of the police in reaching the island of connections of their avowed heroes Utøya – a suspicion enhanced by “confirmed and contacts – particularly of the reports in the Norwegian news media that Mr. Serbian Mafioso and Red Beret Breivik had called the police several times veteran Milorad Ulemek. during the attack on Utoya.”13 6) Of particular interest are the criminal connections between the drug trafficker Ulemek (and possibly Breivik) and the Russian arms-and-drugs meta-group Far West LLC – a group I have discussed elsewhere for its involvement in systemic destabilization and conceivably even 9/11.9 7) Far West’s involvement in systemic destabilization was probably not just self-motivated, The Oslo bombing but had protection if not instigation from Far West’s connections to what David In response, the Norwegian peace researcher Rothkopf, in an important book, Ola Tunander has observed that the Norwegian 3 9 | 34 | 1 APJ | JF security establishment and police resources are characterization of the smaller than foreigners might imagine: perpetrator; “Norway is a small country with a relatively unified power structure, where everyone knows 2) “planted clues,” or what I have each other, and there is less of a clear split elsewhere referred to as a “paper between the security forces and the political trail,” often including videos elite. Close friends of the Chief of Police, for suitable for post-event promotion example the Deputy Foreign Minister, were of the legend; among those with children on the Utøya island."14 3) in particular, planted autodocumentation, a genre This may not close the debate. For Norway also ranging in variety from the had a Gladio stay-behind network, “historic diary” of Lee Harvey ROCAMBOLE (ROC), that was partly funded Oswald to the manifesto of the and controlled by NATO, the CIA, and the Unabomber; British service MI6. ROC was also controversial. In the 1950s a secret controversy 4) a tested modus operandi for a arose from Norway’s discovery that an mass bombing. American in Norway’s NATO HQ had “spied upon high-ranking Norwegian officials.” The left-wing Norwegian intelligence chief who The word “legend” is a term of art from the discovered this situation and protested it to intelligence world meaning a myth created NATO, Vilhelm Evang, was later forced out of around a person, usually to hide their real 16 office by other Norwegian security officials, as intent or loyalties. I use it here without the indirect result of a secret allegation prejudging the truth or falsity of the myth, or forwarded by CIA Counterintelligence Chief the related question of authorship. Above all, in James Angleton.15 So Norway’s security what follows, I do not mean to imply that the apparatus was not entirely homogeneous and myth can be dismissed as a cynical artifact.